Imam Shirazi Center for Strategic Studies hosted a panel of researchers, academics, legal experts, and journalists in the City of Karbala to study the balance between extremist religiosity and secularism. Haidar Al-Jarrah, the head of Imam Shirazi Center presented an article by Mr. Manahi al-Isawi, a researcher at Karbala Center for Studies on the subject. He then explained: “Moderation and striking the balance is to avoid extremes. Moderation is the way to be adopted by believing people at all times. On the other hand, extremism or the refusal to challenge your beliefs at all costs is what religion has denounced time after time.”